I started mowing lawns when I was 10. I also picked oranges, worked in the tomato fields and the packing house. I spent a couple of years working in an ice cream joint and then when I could drive to town, I became a bagboy at the local grocery store. All this and I still found time to make my parents ask themselves why they ever has kids.

I wonder how many of the kids in these photos had to work to support their families. Nowadays it seems to be more about buying junk for themselves.

My brother delivered newspapers via his bicycle in the early '70s and I babysat. Then I worked at A&W and Carl's Jr. and my sis worked at Wendy's. My dad was a soda jerk before going to college and then Officer's Candidate School (Lt. Col. USMC, Ret. - miss you, Dad!).

My first job was delivering groceries for a neighborhood grocer on Saturdays.

My brother's and delivered the San Gabriel Valley Tribune in the Los Angeles County/ Covina,California

Good video! I babysat and worked behind a WT Grants counter serving ice cream dishes and grilled foods.

I was born in the early 1950's. I had a paper route, cut lawns and shoveled snow, ran errands and when I turned 16 and got my S.S. # and worked in a hotel as a busboy. A lot of the photo's shown were before the Baby Boomers like in the 1920's to the 40's. I couldn't relate to some of them.

Born in 1955, I remember most of these things still around through the mid 60s. My first job was mowing lawns to get spending money for Boy Scout camp. It was a great time to be a kid!

I did a little baby-sitting, but my first real job was Paperboy.

Born in 1950, I would mow lawns for $2 when I was 10. In high school I would work part time at a mom/pop hamburger place whereby customers would be met/served by car hops. Sometimes I would go to Six Flags for $6 for an all day pass with the money I made during the summer.

I was born in 1957 and I was one of the Baby Boomers. In 1973 and I turned 16 years old. I got my first part-time job at Great Scott!Supermarkets,(which is now Kroger).I started out as a bagger and I also stocked shelves and worked in the produce department. That was my very first job.

I started babysitting when I was about 13. I cooked burgers n hotdogs at daycare when I was 15.

I delivered papers for The York Daily Record. (1970s) The only way I got paid is if my customers paid their bill. Luckily I had a great route. But The York Daily Record still owes my my last check..

I guess my first job was shining shoes and a little barber shop in Heber springs, Arkansas. We had one of those little shoe shine boxes with the shoe. Rest on top and that's where I first remember doing a job

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Im a genZ and my first job was stacking books in the library

My first job was being the TV remote. Then paperboy

What was the newspaper article about the playmate?